Contact
Get in touch
I am glad to hear from people working on the same problems. A line of context about who you are and what you are after will get a faster and more useful reply than a calendar invitation.
Before you write
What tends to get a reply
Not a set of rules so much as an honest account of where my attention actually goes.
Usually yes
- Speaking on engineering leadership, organisational design and platform strategy.
- Advisory conversations with founders and engineering leaders.
- Correspondence about something I have written here — including disagreement.
- Introductions to people working on genuinely hard organisational problems.
Usually no
- Unsolicited vendor pitches and generic partnership outreach.
- Requests to review, promote or endorse products I have not used.
- Anything that begins by telling me what my own priorities are.
On response times
I answer mail in batches rather than continuously. If something is genuinely time-sensitive, say so in the subject line and I will move it forward.